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ARoyaleWithCheese t1_iwqfgj4 wrote

Reply to comment by floydly in Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986

I don't know how it could ever work in any useful way. Why would you need answers from research papers only to completely disregard the integrity of the scientific method? There are basically no definitive answers within science as there are almost always contradicting results, theories or interpretations.

If you need a quick answer, just use Google to find whatever the current prevalent opinion is in popular science.

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Racially-Ambiguous t1_iwqh3qy wrote

Right? What are the parameters of the study? Is it a meta-analysis, randomized controlled, a large enough sample size, were participants actually monitored etc? A study is useless to me if they had the participants do things at home rather than under supervision.

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Unsd t1_iwqt9u3 wrote

And there are already resources that gets exactly this information. I know my mom uses something for this in clinical research.

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Samarium149 t1_iwtezyd wrote

Yes. It's called Google Scholar and then reading the paper.

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Unsd t1_iwubs8n wrote

Well sure, but literature review for pharmaceuticals, for example, can take a stupid long time so there are tools that make it faster.

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Bagelman0108 t1_iwrm2if wrote

Lol "scientific method integrity" very funny my guy

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UserNamesCantBeTooLo t1_iws55hx wrote

Are you trying to say something here? If you're trying to say the scientific method doesn't work, how do you think the technology underlying the device you used to comment was invented?

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frankferri t1_iwsivsi wrote

I think on a fundamental level we don't really know? Iirc we don't understand charge on a fundamental level- we've gotten gravity, but circuits are still more engineering than science imo

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UserNamesCantBeTooLo t1_iwsxbb0 wrote

That's exactly backward. Electromagnetism is much better understood than gravity. In a way you could say we don't understand either at a fundamental level, but the way you're using that idea here is just taking the fact that there's always more to discover, and trying to enlarge it into a false narrative of exaggerated ignorance.

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frankferri t1_iwu90t5 wrote

I'm in med school, I more than most ppl really do sit on the shoulders of giants. Just trying to encourage a sense of humility as in clinical practice EBM / a mountain of rcts is more something that helps you sleep at night instead of the sword you'll die on

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